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Is -3 a natural number a whole number a integer a rational number or irrational number

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Answer:

-3 is a rational integer.

Explanation:

An integer is a superset of the whole numbers that includes the negated values as well as 0.

A rational number is simply anything that can be expressed as a fraction.

-3 is by these definitions, a negated 3, and any non fractional number can be expressed as a fraction.

-3 is not a natural number, as that is the set of numbers {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ... etc} and -3 is not a whole number, as that is the set of numbers {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ... etc}.

And -3 is also not an irrational number since it can be expressed as a fraction.

Thus, -3 is a rational integer.

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